The Poffley Education Resource page

Picnic – easy food to make

Make a Popcorn and Food necklace;

use popcorn, uncooked corn on the cob, hoola hoops, sweets and raisins

How to make home made Ice cream! Mash the fruit ,strawberries, mangoes, blackcurrants… add castar sugar and double cream, stir and freeze. Hey Presto! You have delicious home made ice cream

How to make peppermint creams using icing sugar, a little water and a few drops of peppermint essence or any other sweet flavour. Shape into balls and use a fork to make a nice imprint.

Here’s how to make fudge.

Use the condensed milk tin to measure approximately a third of the butter you need plus a third of ordinary full milk. In a high rimmed frying pan and on medium heat add the whole tin of condensed milk. Then add a whole packet of caster sugar (1 kg) . Stir particularly around the edges as it starts to froth! ( This needs to be done by an adult as it gets very hot!) When it stiffens and changes colour after approximately 10 minutes turn the heat off. Add any flavouring e.g. vanilla essence or cocoa powder. Keep stirring. Pour the mixture into a lightly greased baking tray. After cooling cut into small pieces and then make sure your little ones don’t find it ! It needs to be eaten in small quantities or your dentist won’t be pleased. You are making enough for a large group of friends or people you want to make friends with.

Violin, Viola, Cello and Piano Lessons Online

We are able to offer lessons on the violin, viola, cello and piano online. Whether you are a beginner or an advanced player you are welcome to have a taster lesson to see if this is for you. Lessons generally cost from £15 – 25 and are 30 minutes long. You might like a weekly or alternate weekly lesson. We also offer 5 lesson refresher courses or a course of 10 beginner lessons.

Because of the unprecedented situation many find themselves in you may want a few lessons just to keep you going before things return to a more normal routine.

We use Zoom or Skype apps and have been DBS checked many times.

Whatever your circumstances please contact us if you would like more information and send an email to cpcellopiano@gmail.com

Rebekka Poffley ARCM trained at the Royal College of Music studying the viola. She has been teaching both the violin and the viola for over 30 years taking beginners through all grades up to diploma level. Many of her students have gone on to study Music at University equipped with a solid technique and a love for playing.

Christopher Poffley ARCM BMus also studied at the Royal College of Music majoring in the cello and the piano. He plays with all the major international period instrument orchestras based in the UK. He has taught children of all ages and taken students through all the grades to and beyond diploma level. He particularly enjoys taking beginners on both instruments. He is happy to teach both the piano and its keyboard equivalent.

Please fill in the form letting us know who would like lessons and we will get back to you as soon as possible. Don’t fill in the payment form until we have discussed things with you.

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One online instrumental lesson

A thirty minute instrumental lesson online with supporting musical materials for beginner and intermediate level students

£10.00

1 indvidual 45 minute lesson for advanced students

A 45 minute individual online lesson for advanced students with supporting material in pdf form provided.

£15.00

Elder blossom cordial !

This is a wonderful refreshing cordial and in season as I write this in May/June. It grows in hedgerows throughout the UK and Europe. It’s strong sweet scent is unmistakable. Collect 10 big bunches of the flower heads without the long stalks. Put them into a bowl or a milk container. Add 1 lemon cut up squeezing some of the juice in already. Add one lb or half a kilo of caster sugar to the mixture. Then add one and a half pint’s of boiling water. Stir your brew. Leave it for 2 or 3 days. It can be ladled out when you need it and – dilute to taste or can be frozen in a plastic bottle making sure you don’t over fill it. I put a milk container volume in my fridge so that it can be used when I need it to refresh my family and friends on hot afternoons. You can add citric acid if you can obtain it from a chemist. Add a small quantity- it only needs a pinch or two. So enjoy! Summer is a coming in………It is wonderful served chilled.

Roasting vegetables and making salads

Roasting vegetables

It’s very easy to roast a whole host of vegetables and very flavoursome too. Cauliflower, sweet potatoes, pumpkin, parsnip, butter squash make great additions to the standard fare of carrots and potatoes etc. Pour a little olive oil on the baking tray and add salt and possibly caraway seeds, basil and rosemary if you like a bit more zing and nutritional umph

You can make simple salads out of carrots and lettuce leaves. Much better for your wee sprog than many other things that end up in a lunchbox!

Grated cabbage and carrot with mayonnaise is great with cumin. This makes a lovely salad.

Picnic – easy food to make

Live performance of Teddy Bear’s Picnic song

Cutting food into fun shapes

Making popcorn and a food necklace out of popcorn, hoola hoops, sweets, and raisins

How to make home made Ice cream! Mash the fruit ,strawberries, mangoes, blackcurrants… add castar sugar and double cream, stir and freeze. Hey Presto! You have delicious home made ice cream

How to make peppermint creams using icing sugar, a little water and a few drops of peppermint essence or any other sweet flavour. Shape into balls and use a fork to make a nice imprint.

Here is how to make fudge. Use the condensed milk tin to measure approximately a third of the butter you need plus a third of ordinary full milk. In a high rimmed frying pan and on medium heat add the whole tin of condensed milk. Then add a whole packet of caster sugar (1 kg) . Stir particularly around the edges as it starts to froth! ( This needs to be done by an adult as it gets very hot!) When it stiffens and changes colour after approximately 10 minutes turn the heat off. Add any flavouring e.g. vanilla essence or cocoa powder. Keep stirring. Pour the mixture into a lightly greased baking tray. After cooling cut into small pieces and then make sure your little ones don’t find it ! It needs to be eaten in small quantities or your dentist won’t be pleased. You are making enough for a large group of friends or people you want to make friends with.